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| A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of two French students in south London. | A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of two French students in south London. |
| Police said a 21-year-old man was arrested in the street in south-east London in the early hours. | Police said a 21-year-old man was arrested in the street in south-east London in the early hours. |
| The badly burned bodies of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were found with more than 240 stab wounds. | The badly burned bodies of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, both 23, were found with more than 240 stab wounds. |
| Detectives said they thought the killer may have stolen items from the flat in New Cross where the biochemistry students were found dead last Sunday. | |
| The man, arrested at 0340 BST on Saturday, was being held in custody at a police station in south-east London, said Metropolitan Police. | The man, arrested at 0340 BST on Saturday, was being held in custody at a police station in south-east London, said Metropolitan Police. |
| Mr Bonomo and Mr Ferez had been doing research at Imperial College. | |
| They were both in the second year of a Masters degree in biochemistry and had come to London at the end of May for a placement due to last three or four months. | |
| Mr Bonomo, from Velaux, near Marseille, and Mr Ferez, from Prouzel, near Amiens, were working on a research project into chains of protein within DNA. They were due to return home in the next few weeks. | |
| Det Ch Insp Mick Duthie said the flat in Sterling Gardens, New Cross - where Mr Bonomo was staying - had been burgled on 23 June and a laptop stolen. | |
| Detectives think their bank cards and two Sony PSP games consoles were taken on the day they were killed. |